Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:23 pm
#1483356
I'm guessing they are the sorts of tools that they would acquire once they went into production - no point in getting them early.
Wickenby on 23rd September (Lincolnshire LAA)
joe-fbs wrote:I'm not giving away any secrets here, by tools we mean manufacturing tools that were scrapped in the hiatus between the US Army ending the project and HAV buying it back.
Flintstone wrote:joe-fbs wrote:.. tools that were scrapped in the hiatus between the US Army ending the project and HAV buying it back.
Aha. I was going to ask why, even if the military retained them you couldn't buy/borrow them now.
kanga wrote:... many US companies who have done anything for a military contract are terrifed about ITAR.
kanga wrote: and with the permission of DoD personnel fully conversant with the product/project, to the great frustration of the latter. Yes, I have experienced this.
GAFlyer4Fun wrote:kanga wrote: and with the permission of DoD personnel fully conversant with the product/project, to the great frustration of the latter. Yes, I have experienced this.
It is the DoS not the DoD that have to give the written authorisations
joe-fbs wrote:Next talk by me is in Cheltenham on Tuesday 11th.
http://www.glosterstrut.co.uk/laa/glosterstrut/